Poppies Flashcards

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Poppies

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  • Relates to war
  • Symbolic
  • Universal symbol of respect and loss
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Individual war graves

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  • Imagery
  • Instantly sent as war as the focus
  • Semantic field of separation
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Crimped petals, spasms of paper red

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  • Asyndetic listing: detailed memory shows significance
  • Semantic field violence/ lack of control
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Still the softening of my face, I wanted to graze my nose across the tip of your nose

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  • Painful memory
  • Maternal affection
  • Graze : injury, juxtaposes the maternal affection, war prevents normality
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I was brave

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  • Not physically, but emotionally
  • Contradicts, conventional ideas of bravery - fighting
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The world overflowing like a treasure chest

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  • Intimidation
  • Enjambment: symbolic of overflowing
  • Treasure chest : opportunity, hope for her child
  • Alludes to love
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You were away intoxicated

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  • Personal pronouns
  • Loss
  • Temporarily lost
  • Overtaken
  • Not self
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A winter coat or reinforcements of scarf gloves

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  • Reflects impact of war on every day life
  • Contrast between domestic and violent militant imagery : emphasises the way the war changes lives
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Leaned against it like a wishbone

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  • Fragility
  • Inevitability of death
  • War will always win
  • Memorial is tall and overpowering
  • She can’t save her son
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I listened, hoping to hear your playground voice catching on the wind

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  • Playground : childish, lost time, too young, loss of innocence, different types of grief
  • Metaphor
  • Catching: not concrete, grasping for collection, fleeting childhood
  • Wind : transience
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